Funding-Graduate Student Fellowship; deadline Jan. 26, 2009

2009 Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships for Graduate or Professional School

Campus deadline: Monday, January 26 by 4 p.m.

The Jack Kent Cooke provides awards of up to $50,000 per year for up to six years of study to deserving low-income college seniors and recent college graduates (who graduated within the past five years).

To be eligible, students must

•        be nominated by the university (the Foundation does not accept applications directly from students). UK may nominate up to two applicants.

•        be a current student at an accredited US college or university with senior status by December 31, 2008, or be a recent graduate (since the spring of 2004).

•        plan to attend a full-time graduate degree program to begin his or her first graduate or professional degree program in the fall of 2009.

•        plan to pursue a graduate degree for the first time.

•        have a cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale (or the equivalent).

•        not have previously been nominated for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship.

Application materials and detailed information about the award opportunity are on the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s website, http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/.

For questions and where to turn in materials at UK, please contact Dr. Robert Tannenbaum at rst@uky.edu or Dr. Lisa Broome-Price at Lisa.broome-price@uky.edu.